Does Bill Pullman Know Lines From His Most Famous Movies?

Variety

Legendary actor, Bill Pullman, guesses lines from his biggest projects such as 'Independence Day', 'While You Were Sleeping', 'Casper' and 'Spaceballs'.

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00:00This is

00:02Tough guy talk didn't we already do an Independence Day? What movie was this? Hi cutie

00:16Let's nuke the bastards. It's not Spaceballs, but it's Independence Day

00:23Let's nuke the bastards

00:26I was worried

00:28That I wasn't presidential material because when they said we want you to be the president

00:33I thought is this a comedy?

00:35But then I realized I said, you know that the thing about the president is you don't have to walk around

00:41Announcing to people you're the president

00:44But if any conversation is going on in the room, they should triangulate to me

00:50so, you know, it was like a fundamental thing that I've just felt like if they recognize that I could be the president I

00:58Oh

01:03Hi, is it really yeah, hiya cutie

01:08What movie was this? Hiya cutie?

01:12Was this League of their own? Oh my gosh

01:17Wow

01:20I

01:25Don't remember saying it but I it seemed like something I would have said it's 40s and

01:30Coming home from the war

01:32Gina Davis there big kiss

01:37Remember hearing that there were some women's athletics that was happening during the war because there were you know

01:44the men were all gone and

01:46That they had a good time, you know getting

01:50On the field, but then I learned more once we started and we were in some really

01:56Classic old baseball stadiums, you know, not even stadiums ballparks, you know and

02:01Indiana it was great to see the uniforms and everything

02:05But I didn't imagine the movie would have as much resonance as it does, you know, it really seems like it

02:11No period picture all that it's kind of endured through the decades

02:20Possession is nine tenths of the law

02:28It's not the guilty

02:31Broke down palace Oh

02:34Casper Wow, you're haunting it possession is nine tenths of the law. No

02:41Really the sword fight with the ghosts the three uncles is up a huge staircase

02:47I just had a toilet plunger that I was battling him with but it was in the early days of you know

02:54CGI in those days if you you know, I would have to do all this elaborate

03:00Choreography with nothing there, but all taking it taking those

03:05Stop points off of

03:07Aspects of the room and if I didn't do it, right if I moved it through something where a ghost was supposed to be

03:13It was a hundred thousand dollars

03:15This is what Spielberg said, you know, be very careful bill because you could bankrupt us

03:27It was a lot different than hugging hugging is very different hugging that involves arms and hands and

03:34Leaning

03:35This whole body's moving in like this

03:38This is while you're sleeping

03:40He has a lot different than hugging hugging is very different hugging that involves arms and hands

03:47Leaning his whole body's moving in like this

03:50She was great spirit clearly gonna have a bit good career ahead of her

03:56She had done the the bus movie and speed and she had

04:01Very disciplined. I think it was

04:05Really clear that we you know, we had more fun than we thought we were gonna have wet the end of the shoot

04:12we were out, you know near a cornfield in Indiana, Illinois, maybe and

04:19It was Illinois and that last take cut in John Turtle house said no

04:25He came in and grabbed Sandy's hand in my hand. He's run run

04:30Suddenly we were running

04:33Way out into this stubble cornfield until we got very far from the set right in the middle of it

04:40and he said, okay, I

04:42Just want to tell you this has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. I love you, too

04:48We've done something together. Let's just remember this moment. I

04:53Remember Sandy's laughs and just laugh

04:56Was she just loved the surprise of it and the joy of it and the acknowledgement that we were really fond of each other

05:07That's fucking crazy man, this is lost highway

05:15That's fucking crazy man

05:19All I get to say fucking I have to go beat myself I

05:24Think it's also very David, you know, David Lynch

05:28That's crazy, man

05:30You know, but it was to

05:32Robert, you know, he was this strange

05:37being entity with a white face big ears and

05:42smile and he says, you know, I'm in your home right now and

05:48No, I don't think you are. He said yeah, call me

05:54Then I call and who's on the other line he's on the other line that's fucking crazy

06:09Nice funeral in case you were wondering I don't want to see this movie, but I'm not remembering it. It's a good line

06:23Oh

06:26Man that's right

06:30Still good line

06:32You had a nice funeral in case you were wondering

06:35We had pretty good

06:38relationship with Anton Fuqua the director who I have great admiration for I just think he's a

06:46Storytelling and action scenes and everything. I can see why Denzel like doing movies with him

06:50Had a good thing and we had a scene that Denzel

06:54Didn't like he had a big long bunch of like a monologue and I'm basically they're listening

07:02you know, but he was just you know, not not feeling like it then Antoine Fuqua said

07:10We're gonna keep the camera rolling now, we're gonna call cut and

07:14And

07:15Bill yeah, this is privately

07:17He said this time when you get done with that dialogue then just starts asking Denzel questions. Just keep asking him

07:25He might not say much, but he might not want to tell you but keep going

07:31And all sudden we had this whole covered the whole ground that was in a monologue

07:36And he made it just almost instantly into a scene with Denzel

07:41Being able to not say things and realizing that's a better scene than him saying everything

07:49if there's no body, there's no crime a

07:54Lot of these lines could been from TV

07:58Center but this is not is it

08:05Could this be a

08:08A father who's desperate to protect his son

08:13It could be Murdoch murders

08:16If there's no body, there's no crime

08:21You know, there's a lot about

08:24Denial that really, you know, it's great to function on so you don't really ever think of yourself as a murderer

08:30so the the idea of how

08:34Driven you can be

08:37When you're looking to save your own skin that can be pretty intoxicating, you know

08:42Both to yourself and for people around it, you know, you realize it's that there is a murderer that

08:49He's seductive in some ways. That's how he could be so

08:53successfully

08:55Keeping the truth from so many people

08:58Okay

09:00My wife read them she really enjoyed them she said and

09:05Then but then you can never believe a woman

09:10Sounds like somebody just might get himself in a little trouble saying that

09:21This isn't Malice Oh

09:27My wife read them she really enjoyed him she said

09:31But then you can never believe a woman there's some good lines in there

09:36That's he never it's very relieving revealing of the character

09:41But there is another line in there that was kind of high-octane

09:46Mike Figgis type line. I'm on the job site and I said come to a party

09:51Okay, you're gonna have it the house. You're welcome to come and then we sit and having a drink and and then I say

09:58You can come and go as you please just don't come in my wife, which I think is one

10:05That's a Mike Figgis line

10:09On behalf of the planet Earth

10:12Happy 4th of July. This is Independence Day

10:16Didn't we already do an Independence Day? Oh

10:18Oh

10:26There had been so much talk of a sequel I think there's you know, I

10:31Was losing track about what was story and what was going to happen and everything

10:35So I kind of stopped, you know, just waiting for it to get real and everything

10:40I always thought they had a good premise, but Roland said I'll never do it until I really have certain scripts

10:48So big story and a lot of characters in it, you know, there it was it was a very interesting

10:55Interesting experience to be somewhat so vulnerable such a privilege to do things again

11:03At last we meet for the first time for the last time

11:09this is

11:11tough guy talk in a very

11:14adventurous movie called space balls

11:17At last we meet for the first time for the last time I remember more than I do about movies I've shot more

11:26recently even because that was my second second movie and

11:30First was I lead big sets on the MGM lot. It was the last movie

11:37That was an MGM movie to be shot on the MGM lot before it was sold, you know

11:42It was in the days of when the makeup guy was a guy with a blazer and a tie, you know

11:49It was just a whole era. I learned a lot from it. So I do remember lots of different things about it

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